Team Season Ends at Hands of Stags

Kingsmen conclude season in Third Round

May 12, 2013

Release by Tracy Maple

The Kingsmen finished the 2013 season with the best record in school history with a 19-5 mark.

Photo: Tracy Maple

CLAREMONT, Calif. – For the third time this spring the No. 5 Cal Lutheran men’s tennis team faced off with No. 1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The stakes today were much higher with an opportunity to advance to the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships on the line. Unfortunately for the Kingsmen, the result today at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center was the same with the Kingsmen falling 5-1 to the Stags, ending the CLU season.

The hope of the Violet and Gold today was to get out to an early lead on the host squad, but it was the Maroon and Gold who went up 2-1 after the doubles portion of the matches and swept the first three singles to seal the victory and punch a ticket to Michigan.

Only the No. 1 ranked team of Nicholas Ballou and Ray Worley were able to earn a point with an 8-5 Win over Warren Wood and Joe Dorn at number one doubles. The CLU duo avenged an 8-5 loss to the CMS pair from a week ago at the SCIAC Championships.

The number three CLU doubles team of Thomas Millet and Marcelo Sousa gave Nickolas Marino and Alex Lane a run, though the Stags pair finished on top 8-5 for the second time in a week. At SCIAC Championships Marino and Lane earned a 9-8 win over Millet and Sousa.

Also turning in a tough battle were Alex Nichols and Connor Treacy who fell to Skyler Butts and Neel Kotrappa by an 8-4 margin. Last week Nichols and Treacy had the upper hand, winning 8-3.